News about the Perdigão field campaign

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Researchers are now gathered for the Perdigão field campaign, an effort to study wind flow physics at scales down to tens of meters. The effort should help engineers harness wind energy in Europe.

The Perdigão project is part of the effort to publish a digital New European Wind Atlas. Perdigão’s EU group is headed by Jakob Mann of the Technical University of Denmark, with Jose Palma of University of Porto as the Portuguese lead principal investigator. Other European participants include DLR (Germany), INEGI (Portugal), and the Portuguese Meteorological Service (IPMA).

The full article on Monitoring Wind in Portugal’s Mountains Down to Microscales, can be found on eos.org. Also find the article "Atmospheric scientists conduct field experiment to study wind flow over complex mountain terrain" on the National Science Foundation website.

New European Wind Atlas

NEWA will be developed to be used as a standard for site assessment and receives financial support from NEWA ERA-NET Plus, topic FP7-ENERGY.2013.10.1.2